PAA Europe 2025 : An Ocean of Connection: Oceanic art, artists and museumsInfo Location Contact More Info Event Information
DescriptionPAA Europe 2025 Conference and Meeting Since the 1980s Oceanic scholars (Wendt 1982; Hau‘ofa 1994; Teaiwa 2014, amongst others) have responded to the tendency, resulting from colonialism and developmentalism, for Oceania to be divided into clearly delineated and distinct areas by reminding Islanders and non-Islanders alike that the Pacific Ocean is a linking pathway rather than a separating boundary. They emphasised the connection to the ocean for many people living in the region; a place defined by the seascape as much as the landscape. This discourse continues to resonate and inspire scholars, curators, artists and practitioners in the region and beyond.
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Contactpaae.conference@uea.ac.uk More InformationDraft programme (locations on UEA campus to be confirmed)
Wednesday 18 June 2025
[for PAA-E board members only: 13.00-14.30: board meeting]
14.00 onwards: registration opens 14.45-15.00: Welcome and introduction
15.00-16.30: Session 1: Connecting ocean Gina Mattchit (Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Museum & Gallery): Te Ao Marama – The World of Light (20mins) Ruby Satele (University of Vienna): (Re)NIU Connection: A Trans-Indigenous Approach on the Rematriation of Ancestral Remains (20mins) Kevin Escudero (Brown University): [title tbc] (20mins) Karen Brown & Marion Bertin (University of St Andrews & Université catholique de Louvain): An Ocean of Connections: Global Island Museologies (10mins)
16.30-17.00: tea/coffee break 17.15-18.15: Vilsoni Hereniko films [tbc]
Thursday 19 June 2025
09.30-11.00: Session 2: Redress Eve Barlow (artist): Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour: Te Ao Māori and Ecological Restoration (20mins) Penny Edmonds (Flinders University): The Ocean, the ship, the plantation: visual culture, memory politics and redress of slavery and unfreedom in the Australia and the Western Pacific (20mins) Jasmine Togo Brisby (artist): ‘Space as practice’ (20mins) Oliver Lueb (Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum): Ethnographic collections from the extended trade and social networks of the sisters Emma Kolbe (1850-1913) and Phebe Parkinson (1863-1944), née Coe (10mins)
11.00-11.30: tea/coffee break
11.30-13.00: Session 3: Exhibitions Lisa McDonald (University of St Andrews): Undercurrents: Art and Ocean in Melanesia (20mins) George Nuku (artist): 'Interventions, Exhibitions, Expositions' (20mins) Stéphanie Leclerc Caffarel & Helene Guiot (Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac) : Passing on and circulating women's knowledge: ETOFFE, Studying Tapa - objects and knowledge of women - Inventory and analysis of barkcloth from 'Uvea and Futuna (20mins)
13.00-14.00: lunch 14.00-15.00: AGM meeting
15.00-16.30: Session 4: Returns Marine Vallée (Te Fare Iamanaha – Musée de Tahiti et des Îles) : ‘Returned’ : Loans and deposits at Te Fare Iamanaha – Musée de Tahiti et des Îles (20mins) Garance Nyssen (Sainsbury Research Unit): About the recent returns of objects to the Fare Iamanaha – Musée de Tahiti et des Îles (French Polynesia) (20mins) Beatrice Voirol (Museum der Kulturen Basel): The dhulu’s return on country (20mins) Eve Haddow (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge): Oceans of care in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge (10mins)
16.30-17.00: tea/coffee break 17.00-18.00: Session 5: Yuki Kihara: Darwin in Paradise Camp
18.15-19.15: drinks reception at the Sainsbury Centre 19.15-.21.30: Conference dinner at the Sainsbury Centre (separate registration)
Friday 20 June 2025
09.30-11.15: Session 6: Collaborations/policies Jimmy Ma‘ia‘i (artist/Auckland Museum): Memory through making; Practice-led research and identity (20mins) George Tamihana Nuku and Nicolas Moret: Te Whare Tu-ahuahu - A Maori Altar in an Ocean of Mountains (20mins) Carolina Gallarini (University of East Anglia): Framing the Gaze: Photo-Elicitation, Ethnography, and Decolonial Praxis in Kanaky (20mins) Bernida Webb-Binder (Spelman College): [title tbc] (10mins) Carol Mayer (Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver): Report on a book (10mins)
11.15-11.45: tea/coffee break 11.45-13.00: exhibition tours at the Sainsbury Centre 12.30-13.45: lunch
13.45-15.30: Session 7: Collections Andy Mills (Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow): Reconstructing & Reconsidering the Turner Missionary Collection (20mins) Gudrun Bucher (Städtisches Museum Braunschweig): Otto Finsch – collector, curator and colonial collaborator (20mins) Laetitia Lopes (Sainsbury Research Unit): Reconstructing entangled narratives: the case of Lieutenant Pineau’s assemblages from Vanuatu (20mins) Christina Hellmich (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco): Harry Beran Massim book project (10mins) Caroline van Santen (independent researcher): Karl von den Steinen’s Marquesan collection (10mins)
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